pinakamataas na posisyon sa gobyerno na naabot ng isang taga-balsahan

Speaker Jose de Venecia(2nd from the left), with (from left) Deputy Speaker Raul del Mar, Majority Leader Arthur Defensor, Deputy Speaker Simeon Datumanong and Secretary General Roberto Nazareno Jr., led an ocular inspection of the almost finished P/15-million plenary Hall computerization and renovation program that will institutionalize electronic plenary voting by members of the 240-member House of Representative. (from photo gallery of Jose de Venecia Jr. ,Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republic of the Philippines.)

ipinagmamalaki ng mga taga balsahan si kuya berto nazareno, simple lang siyang mamamayan sa balsahan pero isa sa may mataas na posisyon sa Kongreso ng Republika ng Pilipinas. Isa siyang secretary general.

ayon sa :

The Officials of the House of Representatives
The Secretary General
"THE SECRETARY-GENERAL carries out and enforces orders and decisions of the House; keeps the Journal of each session; notes all questions of order together with the decisions thereon; complete the printing and distribution of the Records of the House and submits to the Speaker all contracts and agreements approval; acts as the custodian of the property and records of the House and all other government property in its premises. Subject to the supervision control of the Speaker, the Secretary General is the immediate chief of the personnel of the House and is responsible for the faithful and proper performance of their official duties. Like the Speaker, the Secretary General is elected by a majority vote of all the Members at the commencement of each Congress."

napakalaki ng trabaho niya sa ating kongreso kaya't saludo kami sa kanya. eto pa ang ilang impormasyon niya sa kongreso ayon kay Romie Evangelista ng Manila Standard Today:

Cavite Rep. Crispin Remulla, South Cotabato Rep. Darlene Antonino and Cibac party-list Rep. Joel Villanueva all commended Secretary General Roberto Nazareno who had served at the House for more than 21 years.

Nazareno, 74, has been elected thrice as secretary general of the Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses, all under ousted Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.

He is the first non-lawyer who has occupied that position in the history of the Congress of the Philippines.

A professional officer of the government, he started his career as a laborer of the defunct National Airports Corp., and then as a janitor-messenger in the Civil Aeronautics Administration and as a clerk in the Office of the President in Malacañang.

Nazareno rose from the ranks and became assistant Cabinet secretary of the Cabinet secretariat of the Office of the President. His career in legislative service started when he was tapped to be the operations officer of the secretariat of the Legislative Advisory Council (Batasang Bayan) in 1976-1977.

Upon the convening of the Batasang Pambansa, he was appointed successively as director, bills and legislative reference services; director, documentation services and lastly, as director, plenary affairs bureau. He was appointed as technical assistant for operation when the Constitutional Commission of 1986 was convened.

When Congress convened under the 1987 Constitution, he was re-appointed as director of the plenary affairs bureau and was promoted to deputy secretary general for operations in 1991.

kareretiro lang niya sa House of the Representative at ang pumalit sa kanya ay si Atty. Marilyn Yap, ang dating executive director ng House committee on rules.